Bajiravan

Bajiravan was a town of medieval Mughan, the country southwest of the Caspian and around the lower Aras. Some geographers associated it with the chief town of Mughan, described as green and fertile. In 730 a Khazar army besieged the town, but an Arab force under Said ibn Amr al-Harashi drove the attackers away. By the fourteenth century the geographer Hamdallah Mustawfi described Bajiravan as a village. Popular tradition linked it with the journey of Moses and Khizr in search of the Water of Life.